A report by the Itasca Project predicts that by 2040 about 40 percent of our Twin Cities metropolitan area workforce will be people of color and the state and region will not stay strong economically with the current racial disparities.

A new return on investment study suggests that if taxpayers put $4 billion into the region’s transit system over the next two decades there could be more than $10 billion in savings from improved travel time and reliability, reduced vehicle operating expenses, lower shipping costs and emissions reductions.